I make no claim to be a Shakespeare scholar. Even so, I think a case can be made that Shakespeare was opposed to a key aspect of what has become the modern liberal philosophy.

One piece of evidence was discussed recently by Lawrence Auster. It’s a quote from the play King Lear, in which Albany speaks harshly of the evil daughter of Lear, Goneril, with the words:

O Goneril!
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:
That nature, which contemns [scorns] its origin,
Cannot be border’d certain in itself;
She that herself will sliver and disbranch
From her material sap, perforce must wither
And come to deadly use.

This runs directly against the grain of modern liberalism. A key idea of liberalism is that we are made truly human when we choose who we are through our own individual will and reason. Therefore, liberals prize the idea of an individual “freedom” in which there are no limits to our individual will. For liberals, individuals are free when they are not impeded in their will by an inborn nature, or by tradition, or by inherited identities.

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Steve Sailer, fearless as usual, has pointed the way for Muslim repatriation in Europe.  His latest thoughts follow on his VDare article of November 6 and Peter Brimelow’s ponderings of three days earlier.

Steve proposes a carrot and stick arrangement to produce a wholesale Muslim exodus.  He would “deport lawbreakers, cut transfer-payment subsidies and lengthen prison terms to push the destructive Muslims with legal residency back to their ancestral homelands.”  Supplementing this would be “buy-out offers paying $25,000 (or more, if necessary) to pull the Muslims out.”

I think this notion has to be floated at some stage - and now, at the close of a fateful year for race relations in Europe, is as good a time as any.  Here, then, are a few off-the-cuff observations about Steve’s suggestion.

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Mira is an Albanian who has not seen her family in Albania for six years but whose earnings in the UK are their chief source of support.

Her friend, Lisa, adds: “The last time the police raided us, they said ‘you didn’t get a British passport to go on the game’. But I say that it’s my body and I’ll do what I want with it.”

That’s a passage from an article by Jon Silverman that originally appeared in the Guardian on 18th February, 2003.  It was titled Sex workers say “let us stay”.

This touching plea was augmented by an interesting quote from someone called Nicci Adams of Legal Action for Women.  She claimed that “the authorities can be anti-prostitution and anti asylum-seeker at the same time.  What could be more perfect?”

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The estimable Troy Southgate has circulated the philosophical cogniscenti of the New Right - and me - with the URL for his revamped Synthesis website.  There is a lot of interesting material there, not too much of it overly conventional.

This is how the site bills itself:-

... an irregularly-published intellectual and cultural journal devoted to Anarchy (the preservation of the Anarch [or Sovereign Individual] in all aspects of life and the possibility of multi-level realities), Occulture (the appreciation and understanding of the Esoteric nature of Life and Culture), and Metapolitics (a rejection of trivial party politics and an interest in global aims, as well as a political belief in grand plans and projects with an anti-Humanist streak). Our aim is to explore key figures such as Ernst Juenger, Michael Bakunin, Julius Evola, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Jean Parvulesco, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, Otto Strasser, Miguel Serrano, Ernst Niekisch, Jean-Francois Thiriart, R.A. Schwaller de Lubitz, Sergei Nechayev, Savitri Devi, Austin Osman Spare, Richard Walther Darre, Alexander Dugin, Karl Haushofer, Arthur Machen, Rene Guenon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Parker Yockey, H.P. Lovecraft, and Friederich Hielscher.

Troy also organises regular meetings of the New Right in London, only one of which I have been able to attend.  The idea is to generate some interest and excitement around the lost generation of nineteenth and early twentieth century thinkers from the right, whose ideas were submerged by the triumph in Europe of communism and liberal democracy in 1945.  Troy’s meetings usually feature four of five speakers on diverse philosophical issues, Aleksandr Dugin being the biggest name to speak so far.

By contrast with all this I am a centrist pussy cat, of course - but one, I hope, with a fairly open and curious mind.  It is necessary if one intends to plant those black roses.

A sublime self-parody of ultra-leftist social engineering in Ireland has been brought to my amazed attention by Michael R.  I particularly admire these “childcare committees in south Dublin and Fingal” who hope to spread their methods throughout the country.  Wonderfully loving people, I’ll bet.  Wonderful.  Clearly, the citizens committees of revolutionary France reverberate down all the Dublin days.

RACISM among Irish toddlers will be tackled at a conference for childcare providers in Dublin later this month.  International research shows that children can form prejudices against other races even as babies and pre-schoolers.

Workers in creches and childcare facilities will be shown how games and activities can prevent such discrimination forming.

The anti-racism initiative is being organised by childcare committees in south Dublin and Fingal who hope it will provide a blueprint for child carers across the country.

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My proposal, first posted here, for how to remove Lewontin’s Fallacy from Hamilton’s presentation of Price’s equations of group evolution, has been posted to Ian Pitchford’s Evolutionary Psychology Yahoo group.  This is significant because men like J. Phillipe Rushton, of Genetic Similarity Theory fame, and Henry Harpending of Ethnic Genetic Interests fame, are recent participants there.

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The top State-wide ecological correlations* with IQ are rather fascinating**.  Make of them what you will but here are the thoughts that occur to me.

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On Saturday it was revealed that the Deputy Minister for Public Works in Canada, David Marshall, had placed a temporary ban on the hiring of able-bodied, white men.

The reason Mr Marshall gave for the employment ban on white men was to make sure that the public service was “representative” and inclusive of “disadvantaged groups” such as women, visible minorities, aboriginals and the disabled.

But the fact is that the representation of women, aboriginal people and the disabled in government employment is already greater than in the Canadian workforce as a whole. Only visible minorities are less well respresented in the public service, and only by a small margin (7.8% compared to 10.4%).

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